My "New" PC

[Cindy Claveau]

I'd rather not post a pic of my workspace. Not that I'm ashamed, but ....

New PC arrived, representing a several-fold increase in size and power from my old one. Now the problem is remembering where my many peripherals were plugged in and what I called them. It's like re-assembling a bad dream without Cliff Notes.

I have/had THREE cables to serve the different monitors I've had. Remembering which one goes where is a real trip, but I can do trial and error with 3 options pretty easily. I went to bed last night not having figured it out, so I was without a monitor all night and this morning. Oh - that extra cord on my tool bench is the one! Plug in, easy peasy, it works. Now with a functioning monitor I can actually see what I'm doing and remove a couple hundred Steam games I never played or which I wouldn't mind starting over on a clean machine. Diablo IV, Grim Dawn, Sims 4, all the Civs. Wow I even have the private server version of Everquest somewhere that I could never get to work.

I'm just a bit stressed with all this. I hate redoing my PC - I have a few years worth of links, images, and so forth that I don't want to lose and I do NOT want to move my main HD over to the new machine. I want a fresh start. I can transfer that old HDD later on. Thus, my multiple external USB drives. Just can't play most of them on a USB.

If I had one wish, it would be a way to transfer my entire Steam library over in one swoop. I have "steammover.exe" but that's not built for mass backup/transfer. I'd rather just move on and only save those games I've invested a lot of hours into.

There's nothing that stresses me like not having access to my PC. That's where my secrets, my games, my projects, my fun stuff ... maybe my very soul... all reside. Being without it is kind of like having to go to my room in Time out.

Just wanted to rant a little. Mentally I'm kinda exhausted from dreaming about what I had yet to do. That's no different than most nights, I guess Obviously, I have it up and running now but this is the old machine. New machine should work fine now that I've decoded the stupid monitor connections. Grrr.

I need more coffee.

 

[Kalel]

If I had one wish, it would be a way to transfer my entire Steam library over in one swoop. I have "steammover.exe" but that's not built for mass backup/transfer. I'd rather just move on and only save those games I've invested a lot of hours into.

steam settings> Storage > go up to current storage location and click arrow > Add drive... Point to old drive... or move the steamapp files to new drive and point it there... they made it alittle easier in the new versions of steam to relink libraries... the probem comes down to save files.. some are stored on the cloud.... others you have have to dig out of your my documents or my games folder...

 

[Isabeau]

Congratulations on your new soul!

 

[Cindy Claveau]

steam settings> Storage > go up to current storage location and click arrow > Add drive... Point to old drive... or move the steamapp files to new drive and point it there... they made it alittle easier in the new versions of steam to relink libraries... the probem comes down to save files.. some are stored on the cloud.... others you have have to dig out of your my documents or my games folder...

Thanks! I'm down to the last Steam game now, but I'll remember that. Much appreciated. I knew you guys would have a trick or two for me

I have made a habit of never using the Cloud. All of my saved games are on my data drives. Not that I don't trust the cloud, but I don't trust it Besides, when I turn it on it keeps telling me it's full and "would you like to buy more space?". Nah, we good.

 

[Beebo Brink]

On the one hand I'm envious. On the other hand, I'm reminded of why I haven't upgraded to that new PC I promised myself as a retirement present.

Part of me yearns for a clean slate and a LOT more room, because right now my startup drive is really crowded. But data migration would be a nightmare. I've got stuff spread out over several drives, with duplicates and archives and several attempts at re-organization, none of which I completed.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Part of me yearns for a clean slate and a LOT more room, because right now my startup drive is really crowded. But data migration would be a nightmare. I've got stuff spread out over several drives, with duplicates and archives and several attempts at re-organization, none of which I completed.

At least my backup software is giving me an estimate for how long this will take. I'm hobbled, unable to do anything for another 6 hours when it's done. All I did was log into SL for 5 minutes to unbox a package, and the clock got all upset and changed to 8 hours LOL.

I have to remind myself that my computing speed and capacity will be improved exponentially after I've suffered the pain. Otherwise, I'd be so tempted to just hobble along with my outdated setup until I die.

 

[Noodles]

On the one hand I'm envious. On the other hand, I'm reminded of why I haven't upgraded to that new PC I promised myself as a retirement present.

Part of me yearns for a clean slate and a LOT more room, because right now my startup drive is really crowded. But data migration would be a nightmare. I've got stuff spread out over several drives, with duplicates and archives and several attempts at re-organization, none of which I completed.

A starting point might be a large external drive. Like one of those 4 TB Western Digital.

Take it and consolidate everything there, and organize it.

If you want to be really hardcore you could always get a NAS to sort into.

 

[Essence Lumin]

A starting point might be a large external drive. Like one of those 4 TB Western Digital.

4 TB hard drives have gotten cheap! Under $100.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I recently did a migration to a new machine. I had a big drive on the old one I could put everything in, but it had a total of 5 drives that I'd thrown in for various reasons that I had to sort and consolidate. And then trying to find fresh installers and decide which programs I really needed, moving my work licenses for Office and Adobe, and then setting up the new programs that this one uses. I still need to get everything set up and sorted once the semester is over and I have a bit of time and I don't have work that needs the system in case I have to reinstall everything.

But the upgrade was so worth the work. I went from an older i7 with a GTX 1060 to an AMD Ryzen 7 with an RTX4060 ti. It's so shiny.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

4 TB hard drives have gotten cheap! Under $100.

Newegg is offering a 12TB USB drive for $280. I figure if I'm going in, I may as well go in all the way so I don't have to redo it too quickly.

 

[Kokoro Fasching]

Newegg is offering a 12TB USB drive for $280. I figure if I'm going in, I may as well go in all the way so I don't have to redo it too quickly.

But if you get one, get two. One to backup stuff up to, and the second to backup the first. They can spontaneously die, and that wouid be alot of data to vanish into the ether.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I migrate to a new machine by plugging in the old Time Machine drive and running Migration Assistant overnight. In the morning I have my new computer looking exactly like my old computer. My wife, she gets two generations of computers on a KVM because there's something she forgot about that needs to move over six months later because those bastards at Microsoft STILL haven't figured out how to make it easy.

I just got a new mechanical keyboard with Outemu Silent Lime switches, custom keycap set, and a matching deskpad.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

I migrate to a new machine by plugging in the old Time Machine drive and running Migration Assistant overnight. In the morning I have my new computer looking exactly like my old computer. My wife, she gets two generations of computers on a KVM because there's something she forgot about that needs to move over six months later because those bastards at Microsoft STILL haven't figured out how to make it easy.

I just got a new mechanical keyboard with Outemu Silent Lime switches, custom keycap set, and a matching deskpad.

Pretty! I've seen that one before on /r/GirlGamers and I've wanted it....at least a version with a numpad.

I didn't expect you to have a keyboard like that. What kind of keyboard did I expect you to have? I don't know, maybe steampunk or a Model M, or a keyboard that looks like the MIT Space Cadet keyboard, but not pink Sakura style.

 

[Essence Lumin]

I didn't expect you to have a keyboard like that. What kind of keyboard did I expect you to have? I don't know, maybe steampunk or a Model M, or a keyboard that looks like the MIT Space Cadet keyboard, but not pink Sakura style.

Same. I was looking for Hello Kitty on the keys.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Same. I was looking for Hello Kitty on the keys.

Sanrio did a collab with Razer on a keyboard, for some reason it was a China only release!

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I didn't expect you to have a keyboard like that. What kind of keyboard did I expect you to have? I don't know, maybe steampunk or a Model M, or a keyboard that looks like the MIT Space Cadet keyboard, but not pink Sakura style.

More like this maybe?

 

[Free]

More like this maybe?

I'd expect, for some reason, more orange.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

My other keyboard has fewer keys but still pretty.

I don't have the one with the ferret, that was just the result of a quick googleage.

 

[Free]

Still expecting orange, but grey can be cute.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Will blue do? This is the most cyber keycap set I have.